THE ASIA-PACIFIC NEWSLETTER OF ADIDAM ISSN 1176-4570
VOL 17/1
Why Are Spiritual Masters Necessary?
The Spiritual Master is a Transparent Reminder of the Divine Reality, a Guide
to the ecstatic Realization of the One Reality in Which all conditions arise and
change and pass away. The Spiritual Master is not to be made into the merely
“objectified” idol of a cult, as if the Divine Being were exclusively contained in
the “objective” person and “subjective” beliefs of a particular sect. Rather, right
relationship to the Spiritual Master takes the form of free devotional response to
the Spiritual Master’s Radiant State.
—-Avatar Adi Da Samraj, “Adept-Realizers Are The Root of All Esoteric Traditions,” The Aletheon
Avatar Adi Da, 2008
The True Divine Heart is Always Already Active
This newsletter is produced by
devotees of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
Avatar Adi Da established the
ego-transcending Spiritual Way of
Adidam Ruchiradam.
“Open Eyes” is one of Avatar
Adi Da’s descriptions of Perfect
Enlightenment, or the non-exclusive,
non-inward state of one who is
identified unconditionally with the
Indivisible Reality that is the Prior
and Divine Condition of existence.
Avatar Adi Da Teaches that this
Indivisible Reality is the Truth of
everyone and everything. He has
said that we could be completely
Happy in every moment, if we truly
Realised this. Instead, we chronically
feel and think– and experience–that
we are separate from apparent
others and things.
This feeling-sense of separation is
what Adi Da calls the “I”, the ego,
or the “self-contraction”. He Teaches
that the self-contraction is something
we are doing, not something that is
happening to us. Adi Da appeared
in human form for a time to “learn”
this limitation, and to fully Reveal the
means to transcend self-contraction
in the Prior Divine Reality that is His
Eternal State.
The True Divine Heart is Always Already Active, Always Already
Accomplishing the thing that desire constantly seeks but never finally
Realizes. The True Divine Heart is Always Already Non-separateness
(or unqualified relatedness), Always Already Conscious Force
(without obstruction). But the life of desire is always based on the
presumption (and activity) of separation. In the usual human being,
separation has already occurred—therefore, desire tries to heal the
feeling-sense that arises as a consequence of that separative activity.
But no ultimate “success” is ever achieved via the means of desire,
even so-called “Spiritual” forms of desire. There may be temporary
releases, distracting fascinations—but desire never escapes its own
dilemma, because desire does not deal with the dilemma. The search
is concerned only with desire and the objects of desire. But beneath
the search is this root-contraction.
Only the Divine Heart Itself Is the Radiant Continuum of
Satisfaction, the Unobstructed Flow of Divine Spirit-Power. Only
the Divine Heart Itself Always Already Knows Perfect Satisfaction,
Perfect Desirelessness—because the Flow of the Divine Heart-Current
is Always Already Accomplished. Always Already Accomplished—
not accomplished as the result of any motivated action.
IN THIS ISSUE:
A true Spiritual Master is able
to transmit his or her spiritual
realization to devotees. This
transmission makes a true Spiritual
Master necessary for all who wish to
truly learn spiritual truths—because
real knowledge outside of one’s
current understanding is granted
by experience rather than by study.
Throughout the great traditions of
religious and spiritual wisdom,
we find countless descriptions of
the preciousness of this gift from
the Guru, and of the knowledge it
gracefully bestows.
The Great Siddhas are those
extremely rare Adept-Realizers
(of whatever Real degree) who
Function as the True Divine
Heart in relation to living
beings. And that Function is
the unobstructed Flow (or
Transmission) of Spirit-Force.
The pressure of the Presence
of a Great Siddha Awakens
and constantly Intensifies the
Flow of Spirit-Force in living
beings. All obstructions tend
to fall away in the Presence
of this Spirit-Force. Where
the Spirit-Force Moves, either
there is devotional surrender
in Its Presence or there is the
flight from Its Presence. The
Great Siddhas Communicate
the Living Force of Reality.
They Live It to living beings.
They simply Live their State
of Enjoyment (or Realization)
with other beings. And those
who devote themselves
(with greatest intensity and
profundity) to a Siddha-Guru
will tend to Realize that one’s
characteristic State.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj,
“Understanding,” My “Bright” Word
Presence of
“The
a Great Siddha
Awakens and
constantly Intensifies
the Flow of SpiritForce in living
beings.
Here we present a taste of Avatar
Adi Da’s many, many profound
and clarifying communications on
this subject. Also, two devotees of
Adi Da share their experience of
His Blissful and profound Divine
Transmission.
Avatar Adi Da, 2008
”
Reality was clearly a field of Divine Light
[Avatar Adi Da’s] Transmission Power moved into the room
where we were seated with Him face to face and the “Brightness”
of His Divine Light Infiltrated the space with Luminosity, such that
the walls, the objects, and persons became visibly “Brightened”
by His Siddhi. The differentiation between objects loosened, such
that Reality was clearly a field of Divine Light rather than a field
of apparently separate material objects. Beloved Adi Da was
Revealing to us the Truth that matter equals Energy equals Light
and that His All-Pervading Divine Spiritual Presence is the Very
Substance and Nature of That Light.
—Ruchiradama Nadikanta,
a senior renunciate devotee of Adi Da Samraj
An Unutterable Heart-Fullness and Peace
[Avatar Adi Da] sat in silence. As I gazed at Him, I lost my
“anchor” in the room. My point of view became fluid, no longer
fixed to the body. It was as though I were seeing Adi Da and the
whole space from different places in the room, and, for periods of
time, all the apparent objects, including Adi Da’s body, faded in
an all-consuming Radiance. I blinked often, but the Radiance did
not diminish. It was not a merely visual phenomenon. Afterward,
what remained was an unutterable heart-fullness and peace, a
certainty of Being, deathless and absolute, and the recognition
that Adi Da conveyed That, Transmitted That, was That.
For a time, the mind was forgotten in this unspeakable
contemplation. But then the mind kicked in. What had happened?
There were no stored categories of experience in the memory by
which to classify it. I could not say it was a religious experience,
nor a mystical experience, nor a psychological experience. It was
not a loss of awareness, or a dream. What had been revealed
had no content. It was not any merely conditional, or passing,
state. From the first moment, it was paradoxically clear that what
was happening was not about “me”, or “my experience”, or “my
life”. It was a tacit, transcendent knowledge, which, over time, I
came to express to myself and others along these lines: “Nothing
is the same. Adi Da is not merely a person, or a Master. He is
an Event, an Intervention, a Happening of supreme significance
for human beings. He is, by His mere Presence here, answering,
revealing, demonstrating the root-state of the world and of human
life and death, and of all myth, religion, and philosophy”.
—Carolyn Lee, author of The Avatar of What Is
For more information contact:
NEW ZEALAND
Auckland
Christine
ph: (09) 838 9114
email: [email protected]
I Am here to Awaken you to the Realization that you can feel
absolutely, that you can be ecstatic, that there is a different way to
be than you are tending to be in every moment.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj, “The Fire Must Have Its Way,”
Right Life Is Free Participation In Unlimited Radiance
Christchurch
I am like the sunlight in
Neave
ph: (03) 329 9970
the morning. I Intensify
the light of morning
until you Awaken. Until
the Light Awakens
you, even the Light of
Consciousness Itself, you
continue to dream, try to
survive within the dream,
manipulate yourself within
the dream, pursue all kinds
of goals, searches—none of
which Awaken you.
AUSTRALIA
Melbourne, Adelaide,
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& other areas
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HONG KONG
David Brock
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The ordinary means only
console you and distract
you within the dream.
I, Myself, the One Who
would Awaken you, am not
a person, not an individual
within the dream. I Am
your Very Consciousness.
I Am Reality Itself, the
Divine Conscious Light,
the True Waking State,
the True Divine Heart—
Breaking Through the
force of dreaming.... I Am
your own True Self-Nature
Appearing within the
dream to Awaken you.
INDIA
ph: 942 357 9948
FIND OUT MORE ONLINE:
www.adidam.org
(about Avatar Adi Da and Adidam)
www.naitauba.org
(About the principal retreat
sanctuary of Adidam)
www.ispeace723.org
(online publication by
Avatar Adi Da)
www.daplastique.com
(Avatar Adi Da’s art)
www.adidampodcast.com
(podcasts about Avatar Adi Da)
www.dawnhorsepress.com
(publications by and about
Avatar Adi Da)
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj, “The
Gorilla Sermon,” My “Bright” Word
OPEN EYES is published quarterly by
the education department of Adidam
NZ, © 2012 The Avataric Samrajya
of Adidam Pty Ltd, as trustee for The
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About Capitalisation
In His written word, Avatar Adi Da uses a unique style of capitalisation, in which words
describing the Divine Self or Spiritual realities are capitalised.